# Apparently my views have made less than a friend **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 10, 2001, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435 "2001-03-10T10:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435/21 "2001-03-10T15:32:35Z")
Please stop techchick68: _you are giving them exactly what they want._ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435/25 "2001-03-10T16:15:29Z")
Excuse me, darling, but in this board we do not create new screen names and come back like zombies after having been banned, warned, or otherwise spanked. To do so is to get banned again. Addio. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435/26 "2001-03-10T16:35:21Z")
This is really gone too far. I’m closing this thread. FWIW, tech, you got emailed and etc. by “Mr. P and Q.” Or whoever the hell they are. You owe Chris an apology. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435/27 "2001-03-10T16:35:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > Oh come on Billdo wouldn’t you at least attempt trying to pull the person out of their shell??? Come on, Techchick, do you really think that starting a thread about this will really “pull the person out of their shell”? Let’s be realistic here, if the person was too cowardly to attach their name to the e-mail what makes you think they’ll fess up publicly (or even privately) if you start a thread complaining about the e-mail. > [@](#): > > Sorry Billdo, I got the annonymous email, me not you, I am pretty sure stemmed from the SDMB…THAT’S ALL I am trying to get to the bottom of. > > I could give a shit who it’s from if only the lonely poster would let me know. Listen to yourself, Techchick – and read your previous posts here. It’s not that you “could [not] give a shit” about who it is from. It’s clear you want vengance. You want whoever did this “cowardly” act publicly shamed and flogged. You want the admins to do something about it, like banning the person (though I don’t see anything about not sending name-blocked e-mails in the [registration agreement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=signup), except to the extent it violates “don’t be a jerk”). Don’t feed us a line about just wanting to know the person’s name and that’ll be enough. > [@](#): > > Hell for all I know the guy/girl is laughing down his/her nose for my reaction. Yep. The sender of the e-mail is doing what’s known in the business as “trolling.” And you know what, it’s working better than he or she could have ever expected. > [@](#): > > If you think this is about you leave it alone and then it’s not about you duh, lighten up then I can focus on who it really is about. I don’t think it’s about me. I publicly made my response to your comments about Satan in the [ATMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=62742=2). If you compare those comments to the e-mail you received, you can see some obvious differences in style and tone, not to mention content. > [@](#): > > This thread is about the OP I made, not about some bullshit that some other wanna bring up. LOOOOOOOOOOOOK, the person who emailed me was looking for a rise, he/she got it. Now it’s time for him/her to fess up to who he/she is? > > BUT NO, it’s all about techchick and some fucked up thinking you people have. WRONG, it’s about the person that emailed me and didn’t have the balls to show his or her face. If you have a problem with that then I suggest you bow out of this thread because that’s exactly what this thread is about, the person that emailed me. Someone that has little resolve to be a straight up person, so sad. Let’s look at the anonymous e-mail you recieved: “You are a fool. And defending Satan was just the most recent example. All your pouting threads mad me gag.” If that was the content, you’re certainly making a mountain out of a molehill. What did this person call you: a fool, pouting, and making him or her gag. That’s weak stuff even on a slow day in the Pit. You should realize that whenever you post a thread, wherever you post a thread, it’ll drift. You’ve been around here enough to know that if someone posts something in an OP it’s just about as likely for the thread to disagree with the OP as it is for it to agree. As much as you wish it, you simply cannot prevent a thread from turning around and biting you on the ass. What’s particularly galling is that the people in this thread were trying to be helpful to you. We all saw it as a minor annoyance that you should ignore. Rather than respecting this advice, you lash out at anyone who does not think that the sender should be strung up by the balls. Techchick, this message board can be a rough and tumble place. Sometimes there’ll be dirty elbows when the refs aren’t looking. If you can’t take a little cheap shot once in a while, and can’t deal with those of us who suggest you just dust yourself off and keep playing, then perhaps you should consider whether you should be in the arena at all. ON PREVIEW: I see that the poster has appeared as an anonymous sock puppet. Does that make you feel better now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-my-views-have-made-less-than-a-friend/57435.md?page=1)